×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

News
2024 Crayon Shin-chan Film Stays at #3, The Colors Within Opens at #7

posted on by Adriana Hazra

crayon-shin-chan-dino-movie
Image via Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Ora-tachi no Kyōryū Nikki film's website
stayed at #3 in its fourth weekend. The film sold 148,000 tickets and earned 173,122,300 yen ($1.20 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 1.77 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 2,146,878,000 yen ($14.96 million).

The film opened at #2 at the Japanese box office for the weekend of August 9-11. The film sold 365,000 tickets and earned 455,302,200 yen ($3.05 million) in its first three days, and sold 510,000 tickets and earned 636 million yen ($4.32 million) in its first four days including Monday (August 12 was the Mountain Day holiday in Japan).

The film opened in Japan on August 9.

The film follows the friendship between the Nobara family's pet dog Shiro and a "small dinosaur." Their connection helps the growth of Shinnosuke and the Kasukabe Defense Squad.

Shunsuke Itō also guest star in the film as Chū and Ammoner Itō, respectively.

Duel Masters anime including the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Duel Masters TV anime) directed the film. Moral, who writes scripts for the Crayon Shin-chan TV series, wrote the screenplay.

Rock band My Hair is Bad perform the film's theme song "Omoide o Kakenukete" (Run Past Your Memories).

my-hero-academia-youre-next
Image via My Hero Academia: You're Next film's Twitter
My Hero Academia franchise, rose from #6 to #4 in its fifth weekend. The film earned 149,719,000 yen ($1.04 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 2,993,781,000 yen ($20.85 million).

The film dub releases.

The original villain characters for the film are of a mysterious, big criminal organization called the "Gorrini Family."

performs the theme song "Homunculus" as well as the film's ending theme song "Gift."

Original manga creator Kōhei Horikoshi served as the general supervisor and original character designer. The film has an original story that takes place around the same time as where the TV anime is currently, with the collapse of safe society. In the film, a mysterious giant fortress and a man who resembles the former "Symbol of Peace" suddenly appear in a society that has collapsed due to war.

kingdom-live-action-4
Image via Kingdom live-action films' website
Kingdom: Taishogun no Kikan (Return of the General), the fourth live-action Kingdom film, dropped from #5 to #6 in its eighth weekend. The film earned 128,403,100 yen ($894,400) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 5.02 million tickets, and earned a cumulative total of 7,401,215,200 yen ($51.55 million).

The film opened on July 12. It sold 1,065,000 tickets and earned 1.629 billion yen ($10.28 million) in its first three days. The film sold 1.46 million tickets in its first four days, including Monday (which was the Marine Day holiday in Japan), and earned 2.2 billion yen ($13.89 million) in that time.

The film covers the manga's Shi Ka (Zi Xia) arc and the Battle of Bayou — the first time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) stood on the battlefield together, to fend off the invasion by the mighty Chō (Zhao) from the north. Anne (Yūki Araki as Kyō.

Kōichi Satō from the second film also reprised their respective characters Kyо̄ Kai, Sho Hei Kun (Lord Changping), and Ryo Fui (Lu Buwei).

GANTZ:O) returned to write the script.

the-colors-within-imax
Image via The Colors Within anime's website
A Silent Voice), opened at #7. The film earned 97,739,500 yen ($680,200) in its first three days.

The anime CHARADES will manage sales for the rest of Europe, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.

The story centers on Totsuko, a high school girl who can see the "colors" of the emotions in people's hearts. She attends a mission school in Nagasaki. In order to keep her friends and family from feeling dark feelings, she worries, reads situations, and even lies to smooth things over. At an antique bookshop in the corner of town, she meets a beautiful woman with an incredibly beautiful color and a music-loving boy trying to put together a band. The story follows these three sensitive people who gather together to play in a band.

Yamada directed the film at Science SARU. Mr. Children performs the theme song "in the pocket."

sayuri
Image via Sayuri film's X/Twitter
The live-action Sayuri
stayed at #8 in its second weekend.

The film opened in Japan on August 23.

Impossibility Defense) directed the film.

The manga follows a family who move into their own house. Immediately, the family and the house experience mysterious phenomena.

Oshikiri published the manga in Comic Birz magazine from January 2010 to March 2011. The manga has two volumes.

slam-dunk
Slam Dunk basketball manga, rose from #10 to #9 in the third week of its revival screenings that began on August 13. The film earned 81,815,390 yen ($569,400) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 16,464,137,370 yen ($114 million).

The film has now James Cameron's 2009 Avatar film to become the 12th highest-grossing film in Japan ever.

The film sold 847,000 tickets and earned 1,295,808,780 yen ($9.50 million) over its opening weekend.

By June 2023, the film had screenings in January.

GKIDS Netflix in the U.S. on August 25.

visual
Image courtesy of Kadokawa
The two-week advance theater screening for the third Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
anime opened on August 30. While it did not rank in the top 10, it earned 44,772,500 yen ($311,600) in its first three days.

The third season's "Shūgeki-hen" (Attack Arc) will premiere on October 2 on d Anime Store streaming services in Japan. The "Hangeki-hen" (Counterattack Arc) will premiere on February 5, 2025. Each arc will have eight episodes.

stream the series as it airs.

sta
Image courtesy of Bandai Namco Filmworks
sequel dropped from #2 to #5 in its third weekend in the mini-theater rankings.

The film opened on August 16.

Romi Park returned from the previous anime as their characters Kyo Sogoru, Ryoko Kaminagi, Shizuno Misaki, and Lu Sheng, respectively.

Ayako Ōtsuka also returned to compose the music.

The film has two parts. The first part, titled "Reminiscence Arc," recounts the Zegapain television anime series, and Zegapain ADP (Zegapain Adaptation) compilation film. The second part, titled "Olta Moda Arc," depicts the future after the final episode of the Zegapain TV series. The "Olta Moda Arc" is named after a "new force" in the Zegapain world.

The 25th anniversary screening of the Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie anime film stayed at #3 in the mini-theater rankings in its fourth weekend.

The cinema screening of the Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rule the Stage-New Encounter stage play ranked at #4 in the mini-theater rankings in its opening weekend.

Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC


bookmark/share with: short url

archives